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THE COURT Of DIRECTORS of the UNIT ED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND ttadingto the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That a GENERAL COURT of the shill Company will be . si eld at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, th e 'nth Instant, from Nine o'Clock it. the Morning until 4 6 io the Evening, for the ELECTION of a DIRECTOR of , t he said Company, in the room of JOHN LUMSDEN, Esq. deceased. NEW PERIODICAL WORK. • . On the Ist of January, 1819, will be published, price Is. 61 the First Number of a Monthly Periodical Work, en titled THE REMEMBRANCER ; or, Ecclesiastical and Literary Miscellany: which is intended to combine the several Provinces of a Maga;ine, a Review, and an His torical Register, and may be considered, as a Theological Journal for general use. * 4 o' The main Design of the Conductors is to produce Co-operation among Churchmen, by means of the Press ; to conciliate Reverence and Esteem for the Clergy, by producing Instances of the various Good Works in which they are in strumental ; to consolidate their Exertions, and direct them to proper Objects; and to prove what they are capable of effecting by Zeal and Unanimity. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT. ITS PRACTICE AND CONSEQUENCES. A particular order of things may be altered ; " Order Itself cannot lose-its value. As to other " particulars, they are variable by time and by " cirennfttances. Laws of regulation sre nqt " fundamental taws ; they rule the Laws, and " are not ruled by them. They who exercise " the Legislative power must judge.-13ttame. JOSEPH DART, Secretary, Printed for F. C. and J. Itirington, No. 62, St. Paul's Church-yard, and N 0.3, Waterloo-place, ; to whom all Comin s unications are to be wade. Sold also by all Book sellers in the United Kingdom. In the course of next Month will be published, IDRINCLPLES alit! PRACTICES of PRE TENDED REFORMERS in CHURCH and STATE. This %Voik 1;11 lcol4;iseVieW (I) of the Principlesand Practices of Pretended Reformers in Church and State, which caused the Rebellion against King Charles the First. (2) Of the Principles and Practices of Pretended Reformers during the Rebellion and the subsequent Usurpation ; and (3) of the Principles and Practices of Pretended Reformers at the pre sent Time. December 12, 1818. • ,A:r a Nittnerons and bighly Respectable Meet ing of PROPRIETORS of EAST-INDIA STOCK, held 6 al' at the City of London Tavern, Sir TI-TOMAS 8AR .44, Bart. . M.P. in the Chair, the following Resolutions :Itkt e Passed unanimously : t ro Posed by Sir Robert Wigram c tart. and seconded by Charles Forbes, Esq. M.P. • x l• Th at i n the op i n i on o f t hi s M ee ti ng , WILLIAM TAY :II;9It MONEY, Esq. M.P. is eminently qualified to supply !'r hcan e y 'i n t h e C our t of l)irectors,caused by the lamented 1 : ) 'ath of that able and distinguished Member of it, Mr. '44ll,isden. proposed by James Alexander, Esq. M.P. and seconded by Benjamin Shaw, Esq. . 1, 2 ' That this opin'on is founded on Mr. MONEY's general ti l '' . (sdtze Of the Into ests of the Company—his intlefatiga ''PPlication to Public Business—his acknowledged ta v.itn'--and on the high integrity of his character. tipused by John Forbes, Esq. awl seconded by Abel Chap a man, Esq. That, impressed with a strong conviction of the gene `"vti eh th e C ompany cannot f a il t o d er i ve f ro m the Ser v. 'c ' s of an iodividual so justly entitled to esteem and confi a:". th e P ropr i etors lin are now present earnestly recom ,;" N ft• 1\11)N Ers Claims to the Patronage and Support e wh o l e C onst i tuent B o d y , an d t h e y accor di ng ly pl e dge tiiTh , :tt i stives t o ma k e th e mos t s t ren u o us and unremitting ex ''trans to insure his success at the ensuing Election. ilest' . • '`tt'd,• I• hat the above Resolutions be inserted in the Uttlic Papers. AS BARING, Chairman. "5 441 try Joseph Hume, rsq. M.P. and seconded by Ge neral Doveton, M.P. •it the cordial Thu Is of this Meeting be given to Sir 7onlas Baring, Bait. for his able Conduct in the Chair. • COUNTY FIRE-OFFICE, • Ir „ SOUTIIAMPTON-STREET, STRAND. rj'CRiPTS for the Rencwai of POLAC.MS, Ish fa lling dire at Christmas, are now in course of delivery. lait '' , l • M INAGERS of the COUNTY FIRE-OFFICE invite a Utl i l e.exa m i nation i nt o the 'principles and practice of the th e fee whicti'they act.' • They are proud to declare, that 4 4 , 4 , r .eat object of Insurance, viz. a prompt and ample in- Chat '" Y' been invariably yielded by the County Office, z it 11, s so . 14 ta. 0 , sing e litigation has ever arisen to disturb the bar ; th 41,1 ctur , and Claimants. This security the Office is 1 'qv .. " 1 at all tunes to afford, because, Ist, the Orighsal Ittilibers Flare provided a Capital of 400,0001. over and al,ove : 41 4s 1.1" ." . ,'Pting Fund - arisinr front the Premiums ; and be iilthough such profits as arise are equally di '/ice - 1 , 111 ' ) "g those who insure. the Directors of the County kat,ii,"ve shun ne d th e d e l us i ve an d p ern i c i ous prac ti ce • o f :" 1 41,.. 4 large return of profit uniform and ertain, and of 'eft . ulg the liarment of claims dependent on what maybe l lhhdfi xed rule is the payment of all just claims Mi :l4l,l7—the return pr s fit is left to vary with events. Pit h l Likve additiiri.ally t totihserve, that as the original Ca ; Ni t deemed of sufficient magnitude for all purposes of se a titi t Y .; it is expressly provided in the Policies, that the Sub to that Fund alone shall he answerable for Losses. tot, t hose wh o i nsure w hil e. entitled to share profits are et * 'ed from the liability for tine losses of others, which has 41 1. tlil u „""Yely felt in Societies upon the Contributicnship th4:l,l4l:l,nrPtarr ; and which, together with the difficulty procuring restitution, has generally led to l ure or dissolution of'such Societies. v -.....,_ • . 3/ I VANTED, a COUNTRY SEAT, from 20 ,1-16 1 ,, t o Po Miles from London, at Lady-Day, 18 . 19—A . 71-:,',\ in good I e ' tir, COMPLETELY and MODERNLY j e ~,'''" El) : to consist of three' or four sitting rooms on 'NI. ''''''lid flo:ir, (h. bed rooms, and dressing rooms, a !14 1ii ft Z 12 ,.! aCc on) , nodations for sixteen servants, and the usual r t ': of offices with brewhouse, poultry do., pigger.Y, ll ik l ' 14 rder 8„ '& • double coaeli house, and stabling for Iflv t : (*'ght lor;es c. a . good walled garden, from thirty to !xel u - ,. r t' of grass laud, - good roads,. near a post town, and 4,,,, 1 Y t,' right of sjinoting over i. • .ii two to three . tl..ithand A pp " i t laud. where there is opon ano winter shooti . n . . r, ta, vt Y per5,,,,,1 1 ,,, , or b y l etter ( pos t paid ) , to Mi• li cnto p ~.., • J"..---s bt;ett. 5''.. " .. " . " ..- ----•--•- . .. pc, f*N k,OUNTF,R itcT the many attempts that h t N , o: i r ,`; daily mod e to impose on the unwary a sporbms N-.... 4 . 11 ., : --• , .0 n i Hstc . Ifti . (ge nuine Til,,,iiiii4-, prepared -by i, 4,1(1 MARTi". I ; u - x" - . i t •,) a new label, iii whitl , ) t} ' l klik,„ , '''' they ha " a ' 'T ' s ~,,,!, placrd tli ft e ~,o , • 5 9e, I Tigh Ifolbora, is Si co•t. i .. , .•, .. i , '' 'le " a ‘ 'e, t hat li -.v trust an Atter,: i .ii to t.ii•, :i, .1 1 2. , a , llil -- ''" 1 t • .e it • i • • II I •t• .•-iiri,s, wiil •.e type, WII1C!/ IS 1, : , 11he . ,i t if. I , llnteh. 4•1 Asers at onc e to detect the imposition. ."" It ! . I:'Al.' 'l 1 41 4 3; :"" BLACKIN(4, lomfe nod ".Id NT,Tholes . altyr . , 14 i 3 / 4 1,,1„,• , 1i*P1N, 9 7 High Ihnliorn, aml 'el"' 1 " 1 : ''Y , I ' I r "N ' 1 Yrt1f,•,,,,, I) _ • 'if 1-.• Olvs c. I riimlllitillg'erS. . , t 1 . j 5, n o , ~ , tuggisis, mo ...,, • 1 44. I s, ' lase" I " &c. in the United Kii.gdo:u, in Bottles ai ld s. ach. FOR TUE BEAUTIES OF SHA SPEARE.—(No. If this man, who excites our astonishment at his powers of diserimination, del ived, as sorer have ssid, no advantage from a profound educa don, little in his time could he derive from his experience in the ways of w e n. He mitsi there fore owe the brill; .ney or his menial facilities only to Nature, and to Nature's God, who, as if per sonified, •poke through :Ite mourn of all hi• cha racters. - Born in the early prt of the reign of ELIZABETH, when liberty, civil and religious, be gan t o da,e u , as the happy conitecrience of a wise Reformation, he had no opportunity of knowing any thing of politiCal intrigue, the arts of a Court, or tl.e tricks of trade. His attention was drawn ro imartful life ; but how he could pourtray -the objects of it, as if he himself were the object of What he pourtrayed, puzzles the will, staggers the mind, and passeth all ondetstanding. Human events in this enlightened reign of improvements were scanty, and then increased hut slowly , under the Revolution of the Catholic Relikion, through out the life of this mortal prodigy, who died in the subsequent reign of a superstitions Pedant.— He wes, indeed, what GARRICK called him in his Jubilee, the Pride of all Nature, and so say all his ►'lays, which, however destitute of mechanism in the Aristolean school, are always new, always followed, for now more than two centuries ; which seenwto portend that they ever will be so. Ile of fers himself tc, our view in various points, and he commands our admiration in all. Viewed on the side of art, the freaks of fancy, or the simplicity of nature, he runs away with our esteem, increases our wonder, and affords us pleasure. But he was all genius ! Let the dullest of intellects read the forthcoming passage, and, they will start from their Slum bers :-- Oh gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse; how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt wsigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather sleep ly'st thou in smoaky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, • And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumbers, Than in the perfurn'd chambers 4" the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lulrd with sounds of sweetest melody! O thou dull God, why ly'st thou with the vile, In loathsomab and leav'st the kingly couch A watch-case, or a common 'laruni bell Wilt'thou t upon,the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious Surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slipp'ry shrouds, That with the burly death itself awakes ? Canst thou, Oh partial sleep, give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And in the calmest, and the stillest night, With all appliances, and means to_,boot, IhNy 'C N ? Hen. IV. Purt 2. TASTE. The Archduke MAxismlAN and suite, accom panied hv Sir W. \V \V NN, visited the Castle of Ci,e,tei on Saturday last, and, attended by Mr. 14NttathoN, the architect, examined, with cop .idvr a.teni ion,' the Gaol, County Hall, A rumiry, and other buildings, with which his Ili6butis was much gratified. MR. E DITOR,—if ever a subject came before the Community of a nature particularly intere s ting to the Commercial World, and eminently requiring the exercise of talent, ingenuity, and all the in tellectual faculties of man, it is the present ques tion, and particnlarly on the eventful Epoch which now approaches for the consideration of this Theme before the Legislative Body. Impres.ed_as Lam with the sense of the ne cessity of such exertion, and feeling as I du my own inferiority and inability to pursue the task which I am about to engage in, and which I could much desire to see in abler hands, it is With considerable diffidence that 1 again offer myself to public notice. But when I consider the nature' of the subject under consideration, and the weighty interests it involves, and that it embraces objects very dear to the Community, I feel emboldened to proceed will) a degree of confidence which I did not expec t to attain, and with which nothing but the diguity of the subjeCt could inspire me. If the provisions of - the Act were found to em brace the whole of its objects, the present Address would he needless, because the exact adoption of the humane and politic principle would meet every objection, and remove every, complaint on the part of the Creditor as well as the Debtor. But in truth, Acts of 'lnsolvency have hitherto only produced a partial remedy, exceedingly limit ed, and frequently unjust. Although most of the provisions have been founded in equity and good sense, their operation is to be considered as a palliative to check the progress of a dreadful dis ease, - rather than as a remedy to renovate a vitiated system. In jos!icre to the framers of the Act, and in commendation of its liberal sentiments, I wish ro evince a sense of public justice in declaring, that I conceive many additional regulations are required to render it more acceptable to the Com munity, and more advantageous to the interests of Creditors, without violating the claims of hu afanity, justice. or freedom. It is well known, that the present, as well as the former Ac's of Insolvency, has frequently iu dueed the contemplation of fraud, tinder the en couragement of persons become Practitioners in the Court, called Agents, and unrestrained by censcien lions motives, or legal responsibility ; and it must he admitted, that the Act has given great scope to their pretensions ; it has been to them a forlorn hope, when all other hopes have failed. Amongst other mischiefs attendant upon the rapacious and sordid avarice of the lowest practi tioners, whose contracted principles have disgraced the law, and who have sheltered themselves under the appellation of Law Agents, never before recog nized or admitted by any le gal Tribunal, they have imposed pecuniary conditions on the debtor, which have either detaineo hint b(!yond the time prescribed by law, or have subjected him to future perplexi ties, by entering into ne.w engagements to defray Agents' costs. It' would be impossible rationally to contend that the Legislature ever had in con templation the admission of such a host of per sons as have, during the administration of this law, intruded themselves in the Court ; and as it is perfectly clear, team the experience of the Public, that the Mischief's produced have been incalcu lable, so it - is to be wished that the seasonable 'sand of legislaAive correction may be speedily ap plied to prevent their future recurrence. This can only be done by the wisdom and authority of Par liament, to whom the Public may confidently look for redress of such evils, and which will redound much to the honour and credit of 'the Legislative Body. In the language and express words of the great and incomparable COKE, I will add, " Blessed' shall he be that layette the first stone of this building,lmore blessed that proceeds in it, most of all that finisbeth it." 1 therefore look forward with confidence to that much desired period, when the powers of comprehensive and deserving minds, the stores of legal knowledge, • and the luminous perceptions of men celebrated for their learning and philanthropy, shall contribute to rectify the errors and curb the exuberant growth of abuses through Illegitimate Agency, whose baneful in fluence has extended beyond the reach of ordi nary correction. As to the Act itself and its operation, I would observe, that all contracts, by the obligation of natural justice, impose a duty and responsibility on those who enter into them ; and whenever an equivalent recompence or payment is' withheld wilfully, an injustice is committed, and the party who is deprived or stopped of his right is there fore aggrieved. The common attendant on the circumstance of those who have engaged to per form the contract, will not be the sole object of legislative discrimination and: policy, for whether inevitable misfortune or unexpected loss has occa sioned the breach of proinise or non-performance of contract, the injury is the same. The Law of Restitution should be resorted to, the breach of Contract or Engagement should be repaired. If the debtor bas not wherewith to.pay, time same coercive severity which would be edviseable against time maim of bad principle, possessiog the means and not the. will, might be impolitic if re sorted to in the .case of the unfortunate debtor of good principle, possessing the will and destitute of the means ; and it will 'be admitted that the gene rosity which assents to credit ought not to be checked by too great an indulgence in behalf of the person to whom it is given. It is considered that the object of a creditor in arresting his debtor is to obtain his own rilzht, and the end and purpose of imprisonment is to compel the payment, and it is not until imprison ment has become useless, and manifestly untruita ful to the interests of the creditor, that the inter• position of the Insolvent Act is considered a, pro party applicable. There is no class of persons who sustain so much injury from the ineffectual application of legal process as persons in trade and commercial occupation• Credit is given In proportion to the facility which the law allows for recovering debts, and if the debtor pertinaciously withhold the pro perty of his creditori it is bat just to restrain his person as the only mode of obtaining pay ment, or as a proper chastisement for his dishonest conduct ; but in many cases tradesmen are exposed to the depredations of sharpers, and frequently sustain heavy . losses from the extravagant and thoughtless, and in the result have only the naked ultimate satisfaction of incarcerating a Pauper, and giving an unprin cipled Adventurer the opportunity of dissipat. log in low debauchery ; and until prbvisions are duly applied to the prosecution of fraud, indus trious tradesmen will be continually injured by destructive contrivances and desperate devices.— Whenever an unprincipled man contracts a debt which he means not to pay, he calculates upon every expedient to avail himself of a lapse in pro. ceedings,' and to obtain his liberty without charging the just claim against him. With the aid and advice of a low Practitioner, or soi-disant Agent, he can readily find an associating fraud to swear to facts, and descend to practices which may accelerate the projects of villainy, and defeat the aim of Justice. ‘Vhether it be to promote collusion to fabricate statements, to support a bad cause, or to uphold in evidence facts which never existed, rhete ale rho e Agents to be found with. hum the te ecnoay of swearing is considered as a mere matte' of course, and who, with the most hardy and unblushing effron ery, will go through the necessary formalities for accomrlishing their sinister ends; and as their studied inventions evade discovery, they are too commonly successful in their schemes and pernicious pursuits. It is much feared that numerous Debtors, seek ing relief under the Act, have given encouragement to unprincipled persons for the purpose of pro moting their own dishonest views, and under the conviction that professional men, who are legally responsible for their conduct, will not lend them selves to mal-practice—a total Prohiblion of un authorised illegitimate Agency will tend to defeat their machinations, so obviously carried on in con cert by unprincipled Debtors, and those whom they select as the instrument of their designs. Hence it is that the Act, in its consequences, has created public odium and indignation. '1 he mischiefs are rendered more ohnoxiohs by reflection that thes e persons, it) contemplation of the Act itself and its framers, must be pronounced lawless intruders and daring innovators; it so appears to the IVriter, and it is not probable that many of them will have the hardihood to contradict a position which he can• not disprove. I feel, Mr. Editor, as I premised in the early part of this Letter, that the importance of my subject will be some apology for the length of my address, not meaning to relinquish a further con:i nuation of it. I will now close with the earnest expression of • a sincere hope that a Committee of •the Legislature may be appointed early in the en suing Session, to deliberate upon existing evils, and, after a full examination of evidence, to adopt such enactments as shall, in future, counteract the abuse I have detailed, and produce a total and radical Reform in the machinery of the Act, which Ido not hesitate to pronounce will he found to have been lunch crippled, misapplied, or grossly abused by Debtors, tinder the advice of persons con. stituted Insolvent Debtors' Agents. SCRUTATOR. FOR THE SUN. QUERIES to a PAIR of CORRESPONnENTS in the TEMPLE and WINE-OFFICE-COURT, on Me INSOLVENCY ACT. 1. Under the old Acts, which were executed by Magistrates in Sessions, was-it ever thought ne cessary that none but Attornies-at-law should as sist imprisoned debtors to take the benefit of them? 2. Are those who assist these paupers, as agents or accountants, a pack of incorrigible rogues and vagabonds, because .they have not been admitted Attornies-at-law, or have beets discharged from prison as insolvents ? 3. Are the admitted Attornies such pieces of Pure and distinguished virtue and transcendant ability, as never w do an ignorant or a dirty trick ? 4. Have not many super-eminent Attornies been in jail for debt, and slipt through the fingers of their creditors by their art, _or been white washed ? and because they are Attornies, are they the only proper persons to assist their fellow sufferers, who sue for liberty accor4ing to law ? 5. What merit or qualification ought a man to have, so as to assist insolvent debtors towards their discharge ? 6. Is it not assassin-like to attack men in the dark by the weapons of broad intinustion; and to condemn them namelessly, without telling us who and what ye are yourselves 9 If ye blink these questions, which, if ye have any modesty ye will wisely du, I will search ye out, and finding you, treat you as you deserve.--. At present, you are only laughed at in our Office, for saying much about nothing at all, and larding it with scraps of misapplied Latin_ and passages from Shakspeare, tipp'd with a bit of Greek, like !cif gold on your boluses, the better to make them go down. SIMON, of the Six Clerk's Office, Chancery-lane. By ARTHUR 11. KENNEY, D.D. Dean of Achonry, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, No. 62, St. Paul's Chnieh-yard, and No. 3, Waterlok, place, Pall-Mall. ISSENCE of SHRIMPS, a new and superior SAUCE for FISH, equal in strength to Essence of Anchovies, but far excelling it in flavour, and has the ad vantage of turning rancid. The immense demand for it is a convincing proof of the estimation it is livid in by those who have tried it. The Proprietors flatter themselves, that wherever it is once used, it will obtain a pre-eminenee ever all other Sauces for Fish. Made kv C. Dintuore and. Son ; and sold by T. Powell and Son 111, Holhorn-hill, Corner of Hatton-garden. The Public are respect fully requested to observe, that each bottle has the signature of C. Dintnore and Sor ; none other is ge nnine ; this cautiou is necessary, as there is a spurious arti cle now on sale. To the PROPRIETO3S of EAST-INDIA STOCK. tL"'tugs ANn GENTLI.mgv, NCtATRAGED by the flAttering testimonies h 41. e td' regard, and the cordigl assurances of support, which 10 this day received from a very numerous and most re kvect4l'le ass em hiage ,;f your Body, I am induced to renew 1 4 ; "rnt7st and resp.c - ful solicitations for you!. Votes and • ; re sts at th e ensu i ng Election. rlihnithi; through 7mm Suffrages, be elevated to the dis vgnished r sitnation to which I aspire, can assure you,. with eat si act . elty, that it. shall be my earnest endeavour to ernu example of your late lamented Director, Mr. LC MS and devote my best attention to your important ferns. - I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient, obliged, and faithful Servant, W I LLIAM TAYLOR MONEY; tr eat , “am Park, December 12, 1813.